[Mr.Kimball]

First- You may have been at some of there games but you have to admit that they have fan support.

Second- Yes it was 60 years ago but a state championship is a state championship, not too many teams can claim that they have won one.

Third- If Prestonsburg where just a football school all the money would be going toward's football. I personally know that the money is being given to each sport. Support from the community is where the football team gets majority of there money from.

Fourth- Thats because they had a coach that was just baby sitting the team. No one with common sense wanted to coach this team because they knew that nothing was being done about the crappy field they where playing on and the poor equipment they had, but in those years a lot of talent was wasted. Only a select few players went to play college baseball. Hopefully the hiring of Marc Shepherd can change that.

Prestonsburg may have only won 6 games over teams with winning records, but whose fault is that for playing such weak teams constantly? Its the coaches fault, not the players. Your right that Prestonsburg hasn't been traditionally good, but look at the poor excuse for coaches they had. All the talent is there in those halls at that school its just that everyone at Prestonsburg used to automatically believe that our baseball team is horrible and that no one wants to be a part of that.

Yes, I believe that Prestonsburg can compete and defeat Paintsville, Johnson Central, Pikeville, and Lawrence County. Why couldn't they? I'm not saying that they are the at the same caliber as those teams but they have just as much talent as each of those schools have but haven't had the same caliber coach. Now hopefully they do in Marc Shepherd. Thats why this years Prestonsburg team has more expectations, because they have gotten a taste of what its like to go regions, and I'm sure that they'll build of last years success.

FYI, I don not know how the system is set up after regions, and I'll admit that... Sorry.

Again Marc is a quality individual , they dont come any better, but he is very green about baseball. He has never coached it before at either the high school or middle school level. Good to have high expectations though.

The best talent that Prestonsburg has had in recent years was the 2005 squad that had the likes of Jesse Chaffins, Trevor Compton, John Mark Stephens, and Michael Morrison and they were all way too indoctrinated in football to become the players they could have been. Yes PBurg has always had a crappy coach, but just as much blame has to go with the football first mentality. It will always be that way. If you dont have summer and fall teams offered to your players then there is no way that they will ever be able to compete even in the sometimes mediocre 15th region.

If you for one moment think that PBurg has the capabilities that you are professing for this coming season, then you are living in a fantasy world.